Subject Matter Expert
UK

The median Subject Matter Expert salary in the UK is £107,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 716 1063 1059
Rank change year-on-year +347 -4 -305
Permanent jobs requiring a Subject Matter Expert 13 15 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.012% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.013% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £54,145 £48,400 £57,500
25th Percentile £82,911 £55,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +79.17% -25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £120,000 £69,500 £88,125
90th Percentile - - £89,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,145 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.71% -8.00% -13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,748 116,938 121,615
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 95.42% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 36,451 73,675 84,434
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Subject Matter Expert
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Subject Matter Expert in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Subject Matter Expert in the UK

Subject Matter Expert
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Subject Matter Expert.

Salary trend for Subject Matter Expert in the UK

Subject Matter Expert
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Subject Matter Expert over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Subject Matter Expert in the UK

Subject Matter Expert
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Subject Matter Expert within the UK over the 6 months to 9 December 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +349 13 £107,500 +79.17% 3
London +268 6 £120,000 +95.12% 2
Work from Home +263 5 - - 7
UK excluding London +233 2 £54,145 +17.71% 3
South East +163 1 £54,145 - 1
South West - 1 £54,145 -

Subject Matter Expert Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 December 2023, Subject Matter Expert job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Subject Matter Expert in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) ABAP
1 5 (38.46%) SAP
1 5 (38.46%) Workflow
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Digital Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
2 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (30.77%) Validation
2 4 (30.77%) Calypso
2 4 (30.77%) Front Office
2 4 (30.77%) Back Office
2 4 (30.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (30.77%) Fixed Income
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
3 3 (23.08%) SAP CO
3 3 (23.08%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Change Management
3 3 (23.08%) SAP FI
3 3 (23.08%) SAP PS
3 3 (23.08%) BPR
4 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft

Subject Matter Expert Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (7.69%) NetWeaver
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) SAP CO
1 3 (23.08%) SAP FI
1 3 (23.08%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (23.08%) SAP PS
2 1 (7.69%) SAP ERP
2 1 (7.69%) SAP GTS
2 1 (7.69%) SAP HCM
2 1 (7.69%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Skype
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (7.69%) SAP BW
1 1 (7.69%) SAP HANA
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Back Office
2 4 (30.77%) Front Office
2 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) SAP Basis
1 1 (7.69%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Fixed Income
1 4 (30.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Fat Client
2 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Digital Engineering
1 5 (38.46%) Workflow
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
2 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
2 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Validation
3 3 (23.08%) BPR
3 3 (23.08%) Change Management
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Fintech
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (15.38%) Trade Surveillance
5 1 (7.69%) Capacity Management
5 1 (7.69%) Database Mirroring
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Patch Management
5 1 (7.69%) People Management
5 1 (7.69%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) ABAP
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (15.38%) vSphere
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) SAP
2 4 (30.77%) Calypso
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat